FBI Report Shows Dramatic Spike in Anti-Jewish, Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes
FBI, with civil rights groups calling the data "alarming."The bureau's study released on Monday includes detailed data on more than 11 million criminal offenses in the U.S.
that were reported to the FBI from more than 15,000 agencies across the country. The bureau notes that the data is incomplete, with the total national population coverage for its Crime in the Nation report at roughly 93.5 percent.Race and ethnicity-motivated hate crimes remained the largest category, at 56 percent, followed by hate crimes based on religion and sexual orientation, the report shows.
Civil rights organizations raised alarms about the hate-crime data increasing, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) noting that 11,634 reported incidents in 2022 was "the highest number ever recorded since the FBI started tracking such data in 1991."The ADL, an anti-hate organization with a mission to "stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," said that reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crime incidents "sharply rose," by more than 37 percent.The more than 1,100 antisemitic hate crimes last year was the highest number recorded in almost three decades and the second-highest number on record, the ADL said in a statement obtained by Newsweek on Monday night.ADL Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Greenblatt said the FBI data is "sobering" after the Jewish community has already been left reeling in the wake of the attack on Israel last week.Hamas, which the U.S.
designates as a terrorist organization, on October 7 waged the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, sparking the Middle Eastern nation to subsequently launch its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza.
